Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research™

What is your research type?
Greenbook’s 2012 GRIT report was released yesterday including this year’s list of the top 50 companies mentioned as being most innovative by researchers. I have to admit it was nice to see Anderson Analytics in the top 15 even though NGMR did not officially participate in the study. We dropped [...]

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2nd Annual Conference January 18-19 Milan, Italy
The Merlien Institute programme committee for Qualitative Online 360 is currently looking for abstract submissions for our January 2012 conference to be submitted by no later than October 18.
For those of you not aware of Merelien Institute, I accepted an invitation to join their board of advisors in 2010 [...]

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Tian Wei, Research Analyst at Converseon submits the following NGMR Memes:

Tian explains ” The humor (or attempt) in the meme focuses on qualitative analysis; which by definition, is examining human behavior/reasons for behavior…Sometimes it’s rather hard to explain human behavior, especially in regards to Rebecca Black’s “Friday” song which has recently blown up and has [...]

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Tom H. C. Anderson Joining Merlien Institute Advisory Board

I am pleased to announce today that I have accepted an invitation to join the Advisory Board of Merlien Institute.
Merlien Institute is a progressive, global organization which dedicated to the advancement of qualitative research in academia, business and policy environments. Given my keen interest in text analytics [...]

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NGMR Internet Meme Contest Submission #9
Derek is back today with yet another Meme submission he calls “Face Off”. Click image below to see larger size/detail.

I rather like it. I guess I would have to be on the left hand side, though i like to think with text analytics I’m a bit more dual brained [...]

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Tom H. C. Anderson and Management Guru Eli Goldratt discuss Cause and Effect Analysis (Post 3 of 5)

We left off yesterday discussing offshoring market research and how companies may not be analyzing the market research business processes, challenges and opportunities properly. Today Eli and I discuss a bit about quantitative VS. qualitative research, and more [...]

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2010 Market Research Conference & Event Updates
I’ve been a bit lax about updating various conferences and events I’ve been speaking at recently. Therefore thought I would briefly list a couple that have just been planned.
Additionally I’ve been asked to help with the Merlien Institute annual qualitative research conference (focused on mobile), including helping to encourage [...]

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Is it time to slaughter your sacred research cows?
The relative interest in the recent post about the census both here on the blog and in NGMR surprised me a little. Not that I didn’t expect there to be traffic, after all census is something that affects everyone, and race is always seems a hot button topic [...]

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Earlier this week with the launch of Research Radio I mentioned that one of the threads in our Next Gen Market Research Group (NGMR) discussion board on LinkedIn a new thread entitled “TV Show About Market Research?” has become very popular with over 100 posts.
It seems that perhaps there would be enough material for either [...]

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